Paul Theroux Quotes

One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.

Paul Theroux

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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

Joe Haldeman

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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.

John Gregory Dunne

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I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.

Meg Wolitzer

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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Jeff Bridges

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If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that.

John Schnatter

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Give your children all the time and energy. They need to be your number one priority.

Sridevi

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You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Ludivine Sagnier

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I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

Clemence Poesy

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The fans have been really good to me. I thank everyone for all the support.

Chuck Liddell

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I've been involved in ties with elements in the Arab world for years now. They wish to establish relations with Israel, but they cannot do so while there is no peace process.

Tzipi Livni

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